Evidence-based nursing : a guide to clinical practice / Alba DiCenso, Gordon Guyatt and Donna Ciliska

Contents

Part I The Basics: Using the Nursing Literature
Ch. 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing --
Ch. 2: Finding the Evidence --
Ch. 3: Health Care Interventions and Harm: An Introduction --
Ch. 4: Health Care Interventions --
Ch. 5: Harm --
Ch. 6: Diagnosis --
Ch. 7: Prognosis --
Ch. 8: Qualitative Research --
Ch. 9: Summarizing the Evidence Through Systematic Reviews --
Ch. 10: Moving from Evidence to Action Using Clinical Practice Guidelines
Ch. 11: Changing Nursing Practice in an Organization

Part II Beyond the Basic: Using and Teaching the Principles of Evidence-based Nursing
Unit I Health Care Interventions
Ch. 12: Quality of Life
Ch. 13: Surrogate Outcomes
Ch. 14: Surprising Results of Randomized Controlled Trials
Ch. 15: The Principle of Intention-to-Treat
Ch. 16: When to Believe a Subgroup Analysis

Unit II Health Services Research
Ch. 17: Health Services Interventions
Ch. 18: Economic Evaluation
Ch. 19: Computer Decision Support Systems
Unit III Diagnosis
Ch. 20: Clinical Manifestations of Disease
Ch. 21: Differential Diagnosis
Ch. 22: Clinical Prediction Rules

Unit IV Summarizing the Evidence through Systematic Reviews
Ch. 23: Publication Bias
Ch. 24: Evaluating Differences in Study Results
Ch. 25: Fixed-Effects and Random-Effects Models

Unit V Understanding the Results
Ch. 26: Bias and Random Error
Ch. 27: Measures of Association --
Ch. 28: Hypothesis Testing --
Ch. 29: Confidence Intervals
Ch. 30: Measuring Agreement Beyond Chance
Ch. 31: Regression and Correlation

Unit VI Moving from Evidence to Action
Ch. 32: Number Needed to Treat
Ch. 33: Applying Results to Individual Patients
Ch. 34: Incorporating Patient Values
Ch. 35: Interpreting Levels of Evidence and Grades of Health Care Recommendations
Ch. 36: Recommendations about Screening.

Includes bibliographical references and index.